Oedipus Rex

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.

Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.

All my care is you, and all my pleasure yours.

How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

...count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.

It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves.

Weep not, everything must have its day.

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.

They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now -- the gods, the gods go down.

And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.

(...) I, for one, prize less The name of king than deeds of kingly power; And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.

King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.